Katie Friedman Gives Up Texting! (And Lives to Tell About It.)

Description

Breaking up is hard to do. It's even harder when your boyfriend surprises you with front row tickets to your favorite band the moment you're about to do the dirty deed. Which is why Katie decides maybe she doesn't need to break up after all. At least, not today. But when Katie's best friend, Charlie Joe Jackson, starts texting her about the breakup-life turns upside down. Because Katie just made a big mistake. She sent the wrong text to the wrong person! Life can't get any worse. And when Katie's idol, Plain Jane, gets wind of her problem she makes her a deal: Get ten friends to give up their phones for one week and everyone gets backstage passes to her show and brought on stage. Katie's one tough cookie, but she can hardly convince people to give up their phones for a single hour, let alone a whole week!

Tommy Greenwald is the husband of Cathy, the father of Charlie, Joe, and Jack, and the author of the Charlie Joe Jackson series. He swears he doesn't text that much, although he has been known to occasionally walk into telephone poles while staring at his phone. tommygreenwald.com

"Fans of Charlie Joe Jackson's world will enjoy getting to spend more time with these characters." --School Library Journal "Readers will be thoroughly amused as [Katie] and her crew, drawn from different strata of the lunchroom hierarchy, navigate life off the network." --The Bulletin "Fans of the Charlie Joe Jackson series will enjoy the evolving changes in Charlie Joe and Katie's friendship. With wit and perception, Greenwald reminds readers that there is communication beyond their electronics." --Kirkus Reviews